Critical severity · published Mar 19, 2026
CVE-2026-30872
OpenWrt Project has a Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability via IPv6 reverse DNS lookup
9.8
CVSS
2.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. In versions prior to 24.10.6 and 25.12.1, the mdns daemon has a Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the match_ipv6_addresses function, triggered when processing PTR queries for IPv6 reverse DNS domains (.ip6.arpa) received via multicast DNS on UDP port 5353. During processing, the domain name from name_buffer is copied via strcpy into a fixed 256-byte stack buffer, and then the reverse IPv6 request is extracted into a buffer of only 46 bytes (INET6_ADDRSTRLEN). Because the length of the data is never validated before this extraction, an attacker can supply input larger than 46 bytes, causing an out-of-bounds write. This allows a specially crafted DNS query to overflow the stack buffer in match_ipv6_addresses, potentially enabling remote code execution. This issue has been fixed in versions 24.10.6 and 25.12.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.3% · higher than 83% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
openwrt · openwrt
>= 25.12.0-rc1, < 25.12.1; < 24.10.6 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-30872
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-30872
Release Notes
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/releases/tag/v24.10.6
Release Notes
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/releases/tag/v25.12.1
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/security/advisories/GHSA-mpgh-v658-jqv5
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